China quick to act on trade promise
An Across-the-boArd trAde And investment deAl signed with ChinA’s YunnAn province on FridAy wAs A jump-stArt to Chinese President Hu JintAo’s pledge A week eArlier to double bilAterAl trAde with the Kingdom to US$5 billion by 2017. The pAckAge signing, which brought A delegAtion of 45 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinA-quick-to-Act-on-trAde-promise/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Land row villagers see hope
The Preah Vihear provincial authority and other relevant parties issued a statement on Wednesday that contained five points aimed to end a land dispute between 330 families and private company Metrei Pheap. This follows the submission of a petition requesting Prime Minister Hun Sen to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-row-villagers-see-hope/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-row-villagers-see-hope
Fire leaves 48 families homeless
The Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) said on Tuesday that 48 families have been made homeless after a fire swept through their homes in Phnom Penh on Sunday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze, which happened in the Sambok Chab area of Meanchey district’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fire-leaves-48-families-homeless/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fire-leaves-48-families-homeless
Cambodia jumps 12 spots in global energy sustainability survey
Cambodia’s ranking in the latest global energy sustainability survey has improved dramatically, indicating that the Kingdom’s efforts to solve its energy woes and providing an adequate power supply are making headway. This also means that Cambodia, which suffered a crippling power problem a few months ago, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-jumps-12-spots-in-global-energy-sustainability-survey/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50649231/cambodia-jumps-12-spots-in-global-energy-sustainability-survey/
New start or sad end for Cambodia’s last free newspaper?
Saturday’s announcement of the sale of The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s oldest and most respected newspaper, came as no surprise to many who had been following recent events in the country. Rumors had circulated for months about the fate of the country’s last independent English-language <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-start-or-sad-end-for-cambodias-last-free-newspaper/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alan Parkhouse
http://www.atimes.com/article/new-start-or-sad-end-for-cambodias-last-free-newspaper/
NGOs ordered to retract MFI report
The government yesterday ordered two NGOs to retract a critical report on the negative impacts of microloans after summoning their representatives for a meeting to defend their research. The report, published last month by Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut, featured seven case studies of abuse chosen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-ordered-to-retract-mfi-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
http://Khuon Narim
‘Historic’ Khmer Rouge tribunal Case 002/2 verdict to be delivered
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) are to deliver the verdict on Friday, in the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, in a pronouncement hailed as a “historic event for Cambodia and the world”. The verdict from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/historic-khmer-rouge-tribunal-case-002-2-verdict-to-be-delivered/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry records decrease in dengue
The Health Ministry yesterday said that the number of people contracting dengue fever continues to decrease across the Kingdom in the wake of a spike. The ministry noted that about 2,400 new cases were found across the Kingdom this month since a spike in July. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-records-decrease-in-dengue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50635149/ministry-records-decrease-in-dengue/
Korean government recovers $8m of illegal assets
Investigators from South Korea’s state-run deposit insurer have announced their largest overseas illegal assets haul ever after they tracked down and recovered large land holdings owned by a Korean fraudster near Phnom Penh.The haul, worth some $8 million, sheds light on the use of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korean-government-recovers-8m-of-illegal-assets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korean-government-recovers-8m-illegal-assets
SIM card registration drive stalling
One month after the government announced a crackdown on unregistered mobile phone lines, retailers are still selling SIM cards without the required identification documents, and the major telecom companies have done little to curtail the practice. In a joint press conference on September 22, officials <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sim-card-registration-drive-stalling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sim-card-registration-drive-stalling
Top of the class – the minister who rebuilds systems
After Almost 15 yeArs working At vArious economic-relAted Agencies, primArily the ministry of economy And finAnce, H.E. HAng Chuon NAron hAs been At the forefront of trAnsforming CAmbodiA’s broken economy into one thAt is more open And competitive. Since 2013 he hAs been minister of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/top-of-the-clAss-the-minister-who-rebuilds-systems/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20804/top-of-the-class-----the-minister-who-rebuilds-systems/
Difficult rainy season ends
As A fickle rAiny seAson thAt hAs seen AreAs of the country plAgued by drought drAws to A close, CAmbodiA’s rice production remAins neArly on tArget, though food insecurity is still A problem for individuAl communities, According to the World Food ProgrAmme.The seAson’s slow stArt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/difficult-rAiny-seAson-ends/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/difficult-rainy-season-ends
New electricity bill cuts planned to start in April
Starting on april 1, the Electricity authority of Cambodia (EaC) will continue to bring down the cost of electricity for households and enterprises in Phnom Penh and a number of provinces, according to a recent announcement by the agency. In a statement released earlier this month <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-electricity-bill-cuts-planned-to-start-in-april/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109671/new-electricity-bill-cuts-planned-start-april/
Government, labor body cement ties
Because of improved working conditions in garment and footwear factories across the Kingdom, the government yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to continue implementing the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program for three more years. During a celebration commemorating the 15th anniversary of BFC, Labor Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-labor-body-cement-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30981/government--labor-body-cement-ties/
Go Communications buys out Cambodian agency
Malaysia-based GO Communications Group has acquired 100 percent of a public relations agency in Cambodia as a part of its ambitious plan to control a leading PR network in Southeast asia, chief executive officer Michael De Kretser said In terms of foreign direct investment in Cambodia, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/go-communications-buys-out-cambodian-agency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Go-Communications-buys-out-Cambodian-agency-30189095.html
Electricity Vietnam No Longer Involved in Lower Sesan 2 Dam
Electricity Vietnam International (EVNI), a subsidiary of Vietnam’s state-owned electricity giant EVN, is no longer involved in the Lower Sesan 2 dam, a Vietnamese Embassy official confirmed yesterday. Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group and China’s Hydrolancang International Energy Co. Ltd. on Monday signed an agreement in Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/electricity-vietnam-no-longer-involved-in-lower-sesan-2-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/electricity-vietnam-no-longer-involved-in-lower-sesan-2-dam-6363/
Cambodians Face Abuse at Seafood Factory
A ThAi seAfood fActory supplying retAil giAnt WAlmArt is continuing to violAte its lAbor ArrAngements with hundreds of CAmbodiAn workers there And could leAve up to 100 of them strAnded And jobless by next week, the CAmbodiAn LegAl EducAtion Center (CLEC) sAid in A new <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAns-fAce-Abuse-At-seAfood-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
MOUs to tighten Chinese trade ties
Cambodia’s Power Partner Profit Group has signed 10 memoranda of understanding with Chinese companies for cooperation on agriculture, mineral resources and electronics. Insiders said the penning of the MoUs, which do not guarantee a final agreement, was another step toward realising a US$5 billion bilateral trade <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mous-to-tighten-chinese-trade-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia’s GDP is revised
Slumping garment exports led yesterday to an official downgrade for Cambodian’s growth outlook this year – albeit a slight one. Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon projected 6.9 per cent year-on-year gross domestic product growth for 2012, down a tenth of a percentage point from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-gdp-is-revised/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071857475/Business/cambodia-gdp-is-revised.html
Anti-Eviction Protesters Camp at US Embassy for Second Day
Anti-eviction protesters set up cAmp in front of the U.S. EmbAssy in Phnom Penh for A second dAy yesterdAy, but ended their protest in the eArly evening when A petition to U.S. President BArAck ObAmA wAs tAken into the diplomAtic mission by An embAssy guArd. “The <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-eviction-protesters-cAmp-At-us-embAssy-for-second-dAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-camp-at-us-embassy-for-second-day-5358/